Deftones turned London’s Victoria Park into a wall of sound on Sunday night, closing All Points East presents Outbreak Fest with a blistering 95-minute headline set that stretched across more than three decades of alternative metal. The Sacramento icons delivered a career-spanning assault, pulling from 1994’s Adrenaline through to 2025’s Private Music, as a capacity crowd of 50,000 packed Victoria Park for the festival’s biggest celebration of countercultural music yet. The n

Arizona punk veterans AJJ have announced their ninth studio album, Dirty Old Power, arriving 25 September via AJJ Unlimited Ltd and Specialist Subject. Alongside the news, the band have shared “Beauty and Truth 2”, a furious, mournful new single that takes aim at the collapse of shared reality and the idea of objective truth. Following the scorched-earth energy of lead single “Phlamethrower”, “Beauty and Truth 2” takes a more reflective route. Frontman Sean Bonnette frames th

London duo Curbside Lambsear are turning up the tension with ‘Uneasy’, the latest glimpse of their forthcoming debut EP, Put Rings On All My Fingers To Weigh Down My Hands, out 11 September via Scenic Route. Built from chopped guitar, looped grooves, sonorous strings and intertwined vocals, ‘Uneasy’ finds Magdalena McLean and Annabelle Mödlinger pushing their sound deeper into the space between meticulous composition and freeform improvisation. The track also features improvi

Melody Briar is stepping deeper into grief, memory and the fragile nature of human legacy with her evocative new single “The Intangible Man”, offering another emotionally charged glimpse into her forthcoming debut album, Green Aventurine. Built around sweeping strings, textured acoustic guitar and atmospheric production, the track sees Briar expand her sonic world without losing the intimate songwriting at the heart of her music. The result is cinematic, dreamlike and deeply